YOUR Exodus Stories

In honor of the Passover exodus story, in which the Jews received freedom from their enslavement in Egypt, Beliefnet asked you to share your stories of how you overcame "enslavement" and found personal freedom in mind, body, and spirit.

Regained My Mental Health

In August of 2000, I was convinced that I was going to end up destitute
and homeless, and decided that, quite literally, I would rather be
dead. I got on a train and disappeared, on what was intended to be a
one-way trip. I planned to write out the story of how I had ruined my
life, and then end it. Three days later, and more than halfway across
the country, the train went up into the Rockies, and I had a
finger-of-G-d moment looking at the incredible landscape. I chose life!
This was only the beginning of a long journey that involved regaining
my lost health in several dimensions, freeing myself from a toxic life
situation, and returning to a spiritual quest that I had more or less
abandoned. Six years to the day, after getting on that train, I moved
into a place that, for the first time in many years, was not just my
address, but my home. And the quest continues... --btbTrainman